Lemon Truffle Vinaigrette
Dear In Good Taste Catering By Stacey Blog Readers,
Did you make it through the holidays in one piece? I’m sure that you did and I hope that you had some delicious treats along the way! We’re getting back into the post-holiday groove here at In Good Taste Catering and I thought I’d share one of my recipes for a vinaigrette sauce that is absolutely delicious.
One of the things I love most about being a chef is the limitless possibilities to delight one’s taste buds. Many foods, taken by themselves, can actually be quite bland. Combining different flavors allows us to create new flavors and give those bland foods a new pop. Take salads for example: Lettuce is virtually tasteless, but add fruits, vegetables, nuts, proteins (like salmon, tuna or chicken) and you really have something going.
My Lemon Truffle Vinaigrette is perfect for salads, but it can also be used as a dipping sauce or added to some of your other favorite ways to roast chicken or broil salmon. It’s quick and simple to make (with the right care of course)!
Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Ingredients:
1 cup of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 Tbsp of Whole Grain Mustard
1 shallot (chopped)
1 tbsp truffle oil
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
Salt
Pepper
1 tsp Honey
2 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
Instructions:
Once you have all your ingredients, put all of them in a blender except for the Extra Virgin Olive Oil and the Truffle Oil. Take the oils and set them aside for now. But put all the other ingredients in the blender. Blend on high for 30-40 seconds (I won’t be upset if you hit pulverize once or twice).
When you have the ingredients pretty good and blended together, slowly add the oils to the mixture. You can do this in one of two ways: Either in the blender, or, my preferred way, take the sauce out of the blender, put it in a bowl and whisk the oils into the mixture.
You want to make sure that all of it is blended together and you get that creamy consistency. The blender will do it no problem, but the bowl and whisk adds a little more love!
Put it on salads, serve as a dipping sauce or add it to some of your dinner proteins and enjoy it. Let me know how it turns out!